Metro Exodus was another big win for the RTX 4090, with it turning out 107fps on Ultra quality 24fps faster than the RTX 3090 Ti. Without these features, the RTX 4090 averaged 108fps, beating the RTX 3090 Ti’s 89fps by a similar proportion. With these added to the Highest preset, the RTX 4090 averaged 88fps, comfortably out-smoothing the RTX 3090 Ti and its 61fps result. As is the case with Final Fantasy XV, especially if you switch on the full set of Nvidia-exclusive bonuses like HairWorks and TurfEffects. That’s a 67% improvement! Assassin’s Creed Valhalla also got a respectable boost from 73fps to 100fps, while Horizon Zero Dawn climbed from 98fps to 127fps on Ultimate quality.Īgain, you’ll need to have splurged on a 4K display with a heightened refresh rate to see these differences, but they're wide enough to be visible. Shadow of the Tomb Raider also saw a big jump, from 75fps on the RTX 3090 Ti (on the Highest preset with SMAA x4 anti-aliasing) to 125fps on the RTX 4090. That should please anyone who owns one of the best 4K gaming monitors with a 120Hz or 144Hz refresh rate. On Ultra quality, the RTX 4090 cruised to 100fps, a 40fps advantage over the RTX 3090 Ti. But the RTX 4090 stomped all over the Ampere GPU elsewhere, especially in the demanding Total War: Three Kingdoms Battle benchmark. The latter is 14fps higher than what the RTX 3090 Ti managed, which might disappoint given the price difference. ![]() And even where it didn’t, it still put in record-setting scores, like 79fps in Cyberpunk 2077 and 84fps in Watch Dogs Legion. Even so, the RTX 4090 represents a truly generational leap, averaging 100fps or above in all but a couple of our rasterised (non-ray traced) benchmarks. Thanks to the higher-end GPUs in the RTX 30 and AMD Radeon RX 6000 series, you already have a range of graphics card options for hitting 60fps at 4K without sacrificing much in terms of settings quality. ![]() Motherboard: Asus TUF Gaming Z590-Plus WiFi.More on that to come, but first, here’s the core performance lowdown on the RTX 4090’s favourite resolution. Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 review: 4K performance The graphics megacorp is also taking its AI machine learning further than ever with DLSS 3, a distinct new upscaler that can pump out bigger FPS boosts than previous DLSS versions could ever hope for. All RTX 40 GPUs get these, not just the RTX 4090, but with redesigned RT cores and Tensor cores promising enhanced ray tracing performance and improved DLSS performance, it’s clear that Nvidia doesn’t just want faster framerates in traditional rasterised games. Then there are the less listable specs, like the underlying upgrades that form the RTX 40 series’s Ada Lovelace architecture. A small overclock, but then remember that the RTX 3090 Ti has about 5,600 fewer CUDA cores, and only boosted them to 1860MHz at stock. It also overkills the VRAM even harder, with 24GB of 384-bit GDDR6X, and on this model, Zotac has upped the boost clock speed from 2520MHz to 2580MHz. The RTX 4090 packs in 16,384 CUDA cores, over 6,600 more than the next-best RTX 4080 16GB. It's a high-maintenance component, then, though at least the specs are appropriately monstrous. The adapter that needs no fewer than four 8-pin power cables to fuel the card, which has the same mahoosive 450W consumption rating as the stock RTX 4090. ![]() Even if that weren't necessary, the honking great circuit board and triple-fan cooler are so wide that trying to reinstall the case's glass side panel would have half-crushed the PSU cable adapter on the edge. The RTX 4090 Amp Extreme Airo, at 355.5mm long and 165.5mm wide, followed in the steps of the Zotac RTX 3090 Ti I reviewed by only squeezing into my test PC’s NZXT H510 chassis after I removed the AIO cooler and fans – leaving the latter spinning outside the case like a Dead Space environmental hazard.
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